>Hi, i have a dbf file and i want to delete the first 1700 records from these table using the command line. I´m using the visual fox ver. 6.0 and i´d enter the command DELETE with this syntaxis: DELETE [Scope] [FOR lExpression1] [WHILE lExpression2] [IN nWorkArea | cTableAlias] [NOOPTIMIZE].
>But i don´t know how to use it because i saw this from the help opf visual fox ver. 8.0
>Please help me...
Several ways, for instance:
use MyTable
delete next 1700
use MyTable
delete for recno() <= 1700
Results may be slightly different between the two, if you have records that are already deleted.
Also:
delete from MyTable where recno() <= 1700
Using recno() in SQL commands is usually not recommended, but I think it works if you work with a single table.
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